[Fedora-electronic-lab] Please review your section in FEL-12's release notes

[Chitlesh GOORAH]

Dear Upstream, Fedora Packagers and FEL users,

Your software have either been updated or included for the first time
on the fedora repositories and EPEL-5 repository.

We have reached Fedora 12 freeze period and it is schedule for general
release on the 2009-11-10. We have jotted down the release notes of
your software. We would appreciate if you could review the release
notes section of your respective software releases.

Our final draft is:
http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/papers/FEL12ReleaseNotes.pdf

thank you
Chitlesh

-- 
Chitlesh GOORAH
Fedora Electronic Lab Architect
http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL

[Fedora-electronic-lab] Re: Please review your section in FEL-12's release notes

[Svilen]

Hi Chitlesh,

Having in mind the upcoming Toped bugfix release I would like to submit 
some changes related to the release notes. In an attempt to save you 
some time - please find below the edited notes (p.8).

The new release is scheduled for the end of this week. I hope you'll be 
able to see the source tarball in Friday.

Regards
Svilen

>  Updated to the consolidation release 0.9.5. The Fedora Toped package
>
>  sets the variable $TPD_GLOBAL to /usr/share/toped by default so that 
>  the user could run toped out of the box.
>  Graham Petley and Svilen Krustev provided 2 TELL files[5] as a 
>  demonstration how toped can interact with Pharosc Standard Cells via 
>  toped’s GDSII and CIF parsers.
>
>  Highlights
>  • New graphic renderer which speeds-up the drawing up-to 3.5 times. 
>  Requires openGL version 1.4 and Virtual Buffer Objects. It will be 
>  used as a base for future graphical effects.
>  • The old renderer remains to cover graphic drivers implementing older 
>  openGL versions and particularly virtual desktops. F-11 uses openGL 
>  1.3 out of the box, so the the old renderer will be active by default. 
>  This is not an issue, because its speed is significantly improved as well.
>  • Updates and fixes in the external interfaces. GDSII in particular.
>  • New utility for conversion of Virtuoso(C) technology files to TELL.
>  • TDT format updated with new records. Its version is updated to 0.7.
>  • Significant improvmens in the GDSII conversion speed. Multi gigabyte 
>  files are now converted in minutes.
>  • Further updates on the user interface customization - toolbars.
>  • Updates in the internal handling of the cell references. In result 
>  layer 0 is handled as a normal layer now.
>  • Provisions on a new Calibre(C) error report parser. Work in progress.
>  • Many bug fixes.
>
>  Caution
>  Toped releases before 0.94 will not be able to read the new TDT files. 
>  The new release should read TDT files independently of the format version. 
On 09/30/2009 10:39 AM, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
>  Dear Upstream, Fedora Packagers and FEL users,
>
>  Your software have either been updated or included for the first time
>  on the fedora repositories and EPEL-5 repository.
>
>  We have reached Fedora 12 freeze period and it is schedule for general
>  release on the 2009-11-10. We have jotted down the release notes of
>  your software. We would appreciate if you could review the release
>  notes section of your respective software releases.
>
>  Our final draft is:
>  http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/papers/FEL12ReleaseNotes.pdf
>
>  thank you
>  Chitlesh
>
>

[Fedora-electronic-lab] Re: Please review your section in FEL-12's release notes

[Chitlesh GOORAH]

Dear Upstream, Fedora Packagers and FEL users,

Thank you very much for your input, I have updated the Release Notes
accordingly.

http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/papers/FEL12ReleaseNotes.pdf

We are already in deep freeze. The version of EDA tools listed on the
above document will be the ones entailed on the FEL-12 Livedvd. New
versions of  your tools will be available as updates.

Cheers,
Chitlesh Goorah